[FRIAM] Truth: “Hunh! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing!”

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But hailing back to the "doubt" thread, we *all* "mail it in" all the time.  As Nick argues, when you get out of bed in the morning, you're "mailing it in" to some (or other) extent.  When a jazz musician relies on muscle memory to do its job ("mail it in") so that a more reflective neural pathway can synthesize higher-order patterns over those "mailed in" processes, we call that *not* "mailing it in".  But good jazz musicians, presumably, practice "not mailing it in" so that "not mailing it in" becomes easier and more like "mailing it in" over time.  So, "not mailing it in" becomes a higher order "mailing it in".

Unless we're willing to parse your defn of truth into things like "homeostatic truth", "memory truth", "attractor truth", vs "social truth" etc, it will be no more useful than the concepts we already have for those things.  And if we do that, and it turns out those don't reflect the way others (everyone else) uses the term, then it won't be very useful.

On 10/19/2017 07:18 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
>     Actors use the term, 'mail it in' to describe performances that are done without thought. Tom Cruise is an actor oft accused of mailing it in because everything he does, regardless of film or character, is the same - it is Tom Cruise, not the character he is supposed to be portraying.

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